From Amazon vouchers and free trials of Amazon Prime to flash sales and tricks for free delivery.

Let’s face it, Amazon is probably the one website that most people will use at some point each year, so it helps to have a voucher or discount stored up. Here are the best deals at the moment. Read on, and use these quick links to get an idea of the offers I’ve found:

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Amazon gift voucher and top-up offers

There are some decent offers throughout the year to watch out for.

Free credit when you top-up your account or buy a gift card

It’s worth trying each of these. The same offers come and go, so it’s worth checking the links even if you’ve tried a similar promotion. However you can normally only qualify once every couple of years. Check the offer is displayed when you click through. If not, it could mean it’s ended or you’re not eligible.

Amazon Prime offers

Amazon Prime is Amazon’s big membership scheme. I’ve got it thanks to the deals listed below and use it a lot for free delivery and to stream film and TV. You can learn more in my comprehensive Amazon Prime review.

Get a 30 day free Amazon Prime trial

You know the drill here. You get free next day delivery, Amazon Prime Instant Video, access to Amazon Prime Now and loads of other goodies. It’s normally £79 a year but you can get a free 30-day trial. You used to be able to do this every 12 months, but it’s recently changed to once per account. You can always try your luck (you never know), but if you’ve not yet taken out a trial, I’d wait until you’ve a lot of spending coming up, or a big sale such as Prime Day or Black Friday (more on these below).

£10 off a £50 Amazon Prime Now order

Amazon Prime Now offers one or two hour delivery via the Amazon Prime Now app.

If you’ve got Amazon Prime (you can get a 30-day free trial) you can use the service, though it’s not available in every part of the country. Eligible cities include London, Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow.

Once you’ve got Prime and found out if it’s available where you live, use the code PRIMENOW10 to get £10 off. Min spend is £50 – though you can buy gift cards.

Amazon Prime Now has less on offer than the normal online store but does have groceries.

I used this when it launched and bought some nice gin – though sadly I’ve been informed by a few readers that the deal now excludes booze.

£1 “No-rush” credit to spend on digital music, film, books and apps

If you’ve got Prime, instead of selecting next day delivery, look for free no-rush delivery. It’ll take three to five days, but in return, you’ll get credit to spend elsewhere on Amazon. Sadly this deal hasn’t run for a few months, but hopefully it will return.

The usual offer has been £1 to spend on MP3s, Kindle books, digital movies and TV shows and apps. You can get a £1 credit per delivery, so order things separately rather than together to get the most credit. However Amazon cottoned on to this and before it disappeared it was only showing the deal if the basket was worth more than £20.

Free Kindle book every month

Amazon sales and coupons

Echo Speaker discounts

There are some decent savings on the new Echo Dot for £29.99, down from £49.99. However stock is limited on Amazon and in many other retailers. You can order them now, but they might not arrive for a few weeks.

Black Friday & Prime Day 2018 deals

Prime Day – Amazon’s biggest sale – happens each year around July 11th (Amazon’s birthday). In 2018 it took place over 36 hours from 16th July until midnight 17th July. Meanwhile the Black Friday week of deals is at the end of November,

You need to have a Prime membership to get the best deals, but the 30-day free trial will give you that.

In 2017 and 2018 there were some great offers on Amazon tech on Prime Day such as the Amazon Echo (47% off), Amazon Fire TV and Kindles. You could also try additional Prime services such as Amazon Music Unlimited and Amazon Dash for far less than normal. There were also decent offers on TVs, stand mixers, booze, DVD, clothes and much much more. There are also hundreds of special Lightning Deals.You can see some of the 2016 deals here. Black Friday 2017 however wasn’t as good, even though there were deals to be found.

With both sales it’s important to remember that not all the deals are the best price. Some are simply old stock that needs clearing, while other items are often as cheap throughout the year. I’d recommend using uk.camelcamelcamel.comto see the price history before making any purchase

My top Amazon money saving tricks

Hundreds of coupons to use at Amazon

This page lists loads of coupons you can use to save at Amazon. You “collect” the voucher and the discount is automatically added to checkout. When I added this there was a typically random collection of products including chocolate, WD40 and hair straighteners.

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18 Comments

Jeff
on July 8, 2018 at 4:03 pm

Does anyone know if you can get a top up offer again by using a different email address? I assume you can’t but worth asking, though I suspect Amazon track it by address rather than email address so you can’t do this.

Would be nice to use a new email address to make a new Amazon account to take advantage of the £10 credit with first £40 top-up promotion again.

Hi Andy, I can’t work out how to apply the £5 promotion for using Amazon Assistant. I have installed it and a message came up about the code. But when I checkout (with Amazon only items) the £5 desn’t come off. Can you help?

Hi Andy, just to let you know that the section on this blog where you tell people about Amazon Prime for 30 days free, you have put the cost as £79 per month instead of per year! Thought you might want to rectify this.

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